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NAACP slams Ikea’s Juneteenth watermelon menu apology as ‘empty’
celebrate the holiday, which marks the emancipation of the last enslaved Americans. “We got it wrong and we sincerely apologize,” Ikea reps told The Post of the problematic menu, which was hyped to staffers as “featuring “fried chicken, watermelon, mac n cheese, potato salad, collard greens, candied yams … to honor the perseverance of Black Americans.” James Woodall, president of the NAACP’s Georgia state chapter, is not ready to accept the Scandinavian furniture chain’s mea culpa for the tone-deaf meal plan just yet.Woodhall told TMZ that Ikea’s official response to the public outrage was merely “an empty, performative gesture.” Point blank: He thinks Ikea owes answers to its constituents — store employees and customers, alike.Critics
